edited
24th Nov 2023
Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Limiting commitments
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Christopher Back voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
Cory Bernardi and Christopher Back have voted the same way 98% of the time
Cory Bernardi
Former Australian Conservatives Senator for SA February 2017 – January 2020
Christopher Back
Former Liberal Party Senator for WA March 2009 – July 2017
Between March 2009 and July 2017 Cory Bernardi and Christopher Back have voted in the same division 1247 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1225 times. They have only voted differently 22 times.
How do their votes on policies compare?
Policies are groups of votes related to an issue. We only show policies where we have enough information on both people.
Always voted differently on
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Carbon farming
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Live animal export
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 1225 times. They have only voted differently 22 times.
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edited 24th Nov 2023
Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Transition period
Cory Bernardi voted No
Christopher Back voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 9th Mar 2018
Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Cory Bernardi voted No
Christopher Back voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Cory Bernardi voted No
Christopher Back voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Cory Bernardi voted No
Christopher Back voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 8th Jul 2017
Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Cory Bernardi voted No
Christopher Back voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Cory Bernardi voted No
Christopher Back voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Cory Bernardi voted No
Christopher Back voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 30th Jun 2017
Motions - Asylum Seekers - Withdraw from Refugee Convention
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Christopher Back voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 9th Jul 2017
Enhancing Online Safety for Children Amendment Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Criminalise "revenge porn"
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Christopher Back voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 10th Aug 2018
Motions - Influence of Foreign Agents - Royal Commission
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Christopher Back voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 7th Apr 2017
Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Change 18C wording
Cory Bernardi voted No
Christopher Back voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 31st May 2019
Documents - Saudi Arabia - Order for the Production of Documents
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Christopher Back voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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Bills — Transport Security Amendment (Serious or Organised Crime) Bill 2016; in Committee
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Christopher Back voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Documents — Bell Group Liquidation; Order for the Production of Documents
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Christopher Back voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 14th Apr 2017
Motions - Child Sexual Abuse - List of perpetrators
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Christopher Back voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 73% attendance
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edited 6th Apr 2017
Motions - Parliamentarians' Entitlements - Do not increase remuneration until in surplus
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Christopher Back voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Bills — Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Christopher Back voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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Bills — Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Christopher Back voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2017
Parliamentary Entitlements Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Prime ministers
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Christopher Back voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 61% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2017
Parliamentary Entitlements Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Former PMs and the gold pass
Cory Bernardi voted No
Christopher Back voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2015
Tax Laws Amendment (Combating Multinational Tax Avoidance) Bill 2015 - in Committee - Tax information of companies earning over $200m
Cory Bernardi voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Christopher Back voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance